#software humor

[mentalisttraceur-humor]

mentalisttraceur don't get mad at someone else's software before it turns out the problem is in your own software challenge (impossible difficulty)

[mentalisttraceur-software]

Developer: I consent.

Language: I consent.

Isn't there somebody you forgot to ask? [Every other developer who has to read this code after you.]

[mentalisttraceur-software]

Thousands of replies and no one has properly helped OP!

First, since Python won't let us have an if-elif chain that's as long as we need in the source itself, we need a way to generate it. Generators are perfect for this, and very Pythonic:

def _is_even_branches():     yield 'if a == 0: return True'     number = 1     while True:         yield f'elif a == {number}: return False'         number += 1         yield f'elif a == {number}: return True'         number += 1

That generator never finishes, which is good design because it lets the calling code control how high to generate.

Next, we're going to need a better Python - but we can optimize by just implementing the subset of Python that we need: it only needs to interpret lines in the form `(if|elif) a == <integer>: return (True|False)`:

def _is_even_evaluator(lines, a_value):     for line in lines:         condition, body = line.split(": ")         if_or_elif, a_name, equals, number = condition.split()         assert if_or_elif in ('if', 'elif')         assert a_name == 'a'         assert equals == '=='         # `int` raises ValueError if it can't parse         if int(number, base=10) == a_value:             return_, result = body.split()             assert return_ == 'return'             assert result in ('False', 'True')             return eval(result)             # The above `eval` is safe             # so long as you don't turn on             # Python's optimization option             # (which skips all asserts).

And now, finally:

def is_even(number):     if number < 0:         number = -number     return _is_even_evaluator(_is_even_branches(), number)

So python is apparently unable to handle if-statement with more than 2996 elif’s, which is fair, however, it’s really limiting my implentation of an is_even function

Any ideas on how I can work around this?

[a-person-probably]

April 4th

AKA 4/04

AKA "Date not found"

[retrogamingblog2]

[computer-nerd-girl]

[mentalisttraceur-software]

Also software development.

[nixcraft]

[oldschoolfrp]

"Why armor class is important" -- Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord for the Apple II took a lot of inspiration from D&D. The armor class scale begins at 10 and descends for improved armor, as used in OD&D through AD&D 2e, before D&D 3e finally changed to ascending AC numbers. (Will McLean comic panel from the game manual, Sir-Tech Software, 1981)

[punstars]

[mrbreaknfix]

Other people follow rules. I follow results

[secondwheel]

Experiments in science

[mentalisttraceur-software]

Expectation: "chooses the number of threads automatically using heuristics"

Reality: `self.threads = 2`

[edmundtheartist]

This should have been an option.

[aeolianblues]

I don't like that the dev community picks on people who are most fluent in Python, when the ChatGPT-using "vibe coders" are right there. At least Python babies are coding. Bully the non-coders instead.

[jnc687-blog]

You know how those r/iamverysmart people all sound like a high schooler with a thesaurus? Well, with this program I wrote, you can type in any sentence and sound like that kid! It uses the Natural Language Toolkit (NLTK) to finds all the synonyms for every word in the sentence, and then it prints the longest one. The example sentence I used is

"I am writing my blog post about something I wrote and I hope you enjoy it"

and the output is........drumroll please.......

"atomic number 53 amplitude modulation committal to writing my web log Charles William Post approximately something atomic number 53 drop a line and atomic number 53 Leslie Townes Hope you delight information technology"